Desmoid-type fibromatosis of the head and neck in children: a case report and review of the literature

Table 2 The results of literature review

Summary of literature review
The number of patients	141
Mean age (years)	4.3
Gender
Male	67
Female	63
NR	11
Treatment
With surgery	125
Without surgery	16
Recurrence rate (%) in patients with surgery	27.2
Average follow-up duration (months)	53.3
Abstraction of principal information 1. In the margin positive patients (N=62), 29 patients did not show recurrence. After initial surgery, 16 of them did not need additional treatment. 2. In the patients having MIR, the recurrence rate (29.1 %) is lower and the NED rate (85.7 %) is higher than other margin positive status. 3. In the recurrent patients who had NED, all of them were treated with second surgery. 4. We identified postoperative complications in detail in 13 patients including radiation-induced secondary papillary carcinoma.

MIR microscopic incomplete resection, NED no evidence of disease, NR no report

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